A Ballad of Remembrance

Learn about this topic in these articles:

discussed in biography

...Michigan (M.A., 1944), he studied poetry with W.H. Auden. During much of his career as a Fisk University professor (1946–69) his work was not well known, but he gained a public after his
A Ballad of Remembrance (1962) won a grand prize at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966 in Dakar, Senegal. In 1976 he became the first African American to be appointed poetry...